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County Wexford · Leinster

About Ferns

Ferns, Fearna in Irish, is a town in County Wexford, 51 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R745, R772 and L1022. The map gives it 1,639 buildings and 18 named streets, with 69 places named on them in 46 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
1,317, as the map records it
Where
51 km east of Kilkenny, 86 km from Dublin
Position
52.5898° N, 6.4953° W, 60 m above sea level
Roads
R745, R772, L1022, L1023 and L5135
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,639 buildings, 18 streets, 69 named places in 46 kinds
A view of Ferns Castle.
A view of Ferns Castle.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of Ferns Abbey.
A view of Ferns Abbey.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Wexford since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

202,03383,308163,91918412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R745, R772, L1022, L1023 and L5135 running through Ferns. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ferns National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ferns?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 51 km east of Kilkenny and 86 km from Dublin, on the R745, R772 and L1022.
How big is Ferns?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,639 buildings, 18 named streets and 69 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Ferns?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being ferns village heritage tril, Saint Edan's Cathedral Chapter House and Saint Edan's Cathedral Chapter House history board.
How do you get to Ferns?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Wexford Bus.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
1,639
buildings on the model
18
named streets
69
named places
46
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2096277). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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